The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1808 |
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Page xi
... reader of humanity , to see all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his Poem , those alone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the ...
... reader of humanity , to see all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his Poem , those alone are capable of doing it justice , who , to use the ...
Page xx
... reader has discovered in it something new which is not in Dryden's prefaces , dedications , and his essay on dramatic poetry , not to mention the French critics , I should be very glad to have the benefit of the discovery P. " He is ...
... reader has discovered in it something new which is not in Dryden's prefaces , dedications , and his essay on dramatic poetry , not to mention the French critics , I should be very glad to have the benefit of the discovery P. " He is ...
Page xxi
... reader must assent to , when he sees " them explained with that ease and perspicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are " the most known and the most received , they are placed " in so beautiful a light , and ...
... reader must assent to , when he sees " them explained with that ease and perspicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are " the most known and the most received , they are placed " in so beautiful a light , and ...
Page xxv
... reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the Proposal below quoted , and on what fol- lows ( some months after the former assertion ) in the same Journalist of June 8 , " The bookseller proposed the book " by subscription , and raised ...
... reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the Proposal below quoted , and on what fol- lows ( some months after the former assertion ) in the same Journalist of June 8 , " The bookseller proposed the book " by subscription , and raised ...
Page xxxiii
... reader shall seem good . Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous : for one declares he ought to have a price set on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beast h . Another protests that he ...
... reader shall seem good . Sure it is , he is little favoured of certain authors , whose wrath is perilous : for one declares he ought to have a price set on his head , and to be hunted down as a wild beast h . Another protests that he ...
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